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Post by mike on Sept 4, 2021 17:51:22 GMT -5
Dumped and replaced the water. Added 24 ml nutes, 20 ml Mooch, 2 ml GH KoolBloom.
These don't look good except for one plant. I may just restart the Farm XL. I'll give these nutes a few days to show improvement.
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campingcorgis
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Post by campingcorgis on Sept 4, 2021 18:11:57 GMT -5
I'm sorry, mike! I know you'll know what is best. Fingers crossed anyway! |
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Sept 5, 2021 20:29:08 GMT -5
Sorry, mike. That is such a let-down. |
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Post by mike on Sept 6, 2021 18:55:38 GMT -5
The ugliest plant of the four and look at what I uncovered. There are some on the second ugliest, too.  |
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campingcorgis
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Post by campingcorgis on Sept 6, 2021 19:19:09 GMT -5
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Sept 6, 2021 20:33:59 GMT -5
Emoticons aren't working on this phone, so I'll just say a big LOL!
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Post by lynnee on Sept 6, 2021 22:41:05 GMT -5
My banana pepper had edema, so I harvested the peppers (quite a few) and pruned the worst leaves. My thought was to de-stress the plant, but it was having none of it. The plant immediately started producing lots of new peppers.
The plant still has some edema, and some curling of leaves, but it looks healthy unless you look closely enough to see the edema. A bell pepper in the same Farm+ area has the same symptoms, but is producing.
Both pepper plants get a substantial cool draft for at least an hour when I run a floor fan to cool the house down at night. I think you are probably right that the cool drafts are causing the edema. I was wondering about this, so am very interested in any solutions you may come up with.
I think that your Real Deal Peppers look amazing!
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mike
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Post by mike on Sept 7, 2021 5:02:39 GMT -5
I have determined the air conditioner is the problem. The air has been off for a week and the peppers are showing up now, a little. More research is necessary. I bought two window fans to go at opposite ends of my condo. I installed them this weekend. We shall see.
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airscapes
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Post by airscapes on Sept 7, 2021 8:16:20 GMT -5
This is may not be helpful but I found my indoor tomato suffered from edema much more substantially when under feed. It was sucking water to try and feed but was not getting what it needed. The other thing was I added small fans that blew on the plant from below 24x7. The heat of the light causes the plant to suck water to cool and then at night the quick drop in room temp but the roots were actually hotter than room temp due to the pump running (tub tomato) the plant assumed it was raining and drank even more and could not transpire even with the fan, hence the edema. So the the 3 things that reduced the edema were, cooler water, fan on plant 24x7 and more constant food supply including calcium which regulates water uptake in plants.
Good luck, trying to mimic Mother Nature is a real pain!!
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mike
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Post by mike on Sept 7, 2021 18:47:20 GMT -5
If anything, mine were overfed. I gave them recommended quantities. I always wondered whether the differing nutrient brands ever work against each other. I could never find anyone that addressed that in any depth. I like pH buffered nutrients so I don't need to mess with pH. I change water after six weeks so I don't have to worry about dissolved solids.
I like to keep it as simple as possible. My mobility isn't very good, so the easier the better. And here I am messing with bloom boosters, and reading up on mixing my own nutrients. I don't know where that will go.
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airscapes
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Post by airscapes on Sept 7, 2021 22:15:45 GMT -5
Yes, the ph is a real pain.. and very expensive to monitor/adjust accurately. Not the up/down, but the meter and consumables (probe cleaner, storage solution and calibration solution) .. I totally understand why AG does what they do.. the food they provide works on a wide range of plants and keep ph in a range that works for the stuff they sell to grow.
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campingcorgis
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Post by campingcorgis on Sept 8, 2021 10:16:02 GMT -5
Sometimes a brain challenge can be a good thing? I'm so sorry to hear of the mobility challenges!
Maybe go back to things you've had good luck with and enjoyed eating too? In other words, maybe it is just this darn pepper!?
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Sept 8, 2021 21:07:17 GMT -5
You don't know The Pepper King. He loves a good challenge!  |
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mike
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Post by mike on Sept 9, 2021 17:59:20 GMT -5
Well, I'm growing five different peppers. None of them are raging successes. I don't think of things as challenges. But I am not afraid of failure with plants. If it works, great. If not, try something else. Learn from what doesn't work. Enjoy your successes. Either way, have fun.
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campingcorgis
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Post by campingcorgis on Sept 9, 2021 18:15:18 GMT -5
Well, I'm growing five different peppers. None of them are raging successes. I don't think of things as challenges. But I am not afraid of failure with plants. If it works, great. If not, try something else. Learn from what doesn't work. Enjoy your successes. Either way, have fun. I couldn't agree with you more!! |
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Sept 9, 2021 19:41:34 GMT -5
The main thing is to enjoy growing them. I have ended projects before just because I was tired of them and wanted to grow something more fun or exciting.
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Post by lynnee on Sept 9, 2021 23:00:58 GMT -5
The main thing is to enjoy growing them. I have ended projects before just because I was tired of them and wanted to grow something more fun or exciting. I get kind of attached to my plants, and always hate to "terminate" any of them. (At least I don't give them names, like I do with the computers and robot vacuums! 😄 ) I even hate to thin the pods that need to be reduced to a single plant, like the peppers. But I did end the microgreens garden at the earliest point, because I wanted to start a new poblano. 😄 |
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Post by mike on Sept 12, 2021 9:28:43 GMT -5
Here is one that looks to be ripening yellow. I never could figure these peppers out.  |
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Sher
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Post by Sher on Sept 12, 2021 11:47:26 GMT -5
It's a suspenseful mystery!
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mike
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Post by mike on Sept 22, 2021 19:08:58 GMT -5
These plants are looking much healthier. I'm going to wait for a ripe one here before I decide to terminate. I have to taste them first.  |
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